June 16

• June 16, 1487
  Henry VII beat John de la Pole at the Battle at Stoke, the last battle of the Wars of the Roses
• June 16, 1671
  Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader, is tortured and executed in Moscow
• June 16, 1755
  British capture Fort Beauséjour during French and Indian War and expel the Acadians, who move to destinations like Maine and Louisiana
• June 16, 1779
  Spain, in support of the US, declares war on England
• June 16, 1815
  Napoleon defeat the Prussians under Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher at the Battle of Ligny, Belgium
• June 16, 1824
  The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is formed at Old Slaughter's Coffee House in London under the direction of Arthur Broome
• June 16, 1875
  In Paris, France, the first stone is laid for the Sacré-Cœur basilica in Montmartre, dedicated in honor of casualties during the Franco-Prussian War
• June 16, 1903
  Ford Motor Company, an American automaker, incorporates in Detroit
• June 16, 1940
  Marshal Philippe Pétain takes over the government, and immediately calls for a ceasefire after Paul Reynaud resigns as Prime Minister of France
• June 16, 1960
  Psycho, a psychological thriller-horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, considered one of the greatest films of all time, is released
• June 16, 1963
  Valentina Tereshkova from Soviet Union becomes the first woman in space
• June 16, 1976
  Student uprisings begin in Soweto, South Africa, in response to the introduction of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction in local schools
• June 16, 1977
  Leonid Brezhnev is named president of USSR
• June 16, 1989
  A crowd of 250,000 gathers at Heroes Square in Budapest for the historic reburial of Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian prime minister who had been executed in 1958
• June 16, 2009
  The first summit of BRICS economic bloc, an international association of emerging national economies created by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, begins